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In a 1901 edition of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel La barraca, the narrator depicts how, from time to time, as the cathedral's inner doors open, a cool, damp breath of incense, likened to air from an underground place, spreads into the warm square outside Valencia Cathedral while the judges of the Water Tribunal talk by the door before their session.
A depiction in a novel set in its author's own time: it shows how the scene was written, not a record of the cathedral's practice, and not how the square smells today.EXTERNAL RECORD